Claims
- 1. In a liquid manure handling implement having a holding tank for liquid manure obtained from a pool thereof:
- a pickup housing mounted on one end of said tank and adapted for insertion into said pool,
- said housing having an intake for manure from the pool and said tank having structure on said one end defining an inlet for picked-up manure from the housing;
- an agitator-loader device on said housing adjacent said intake for aggressively churning the pool to thoroughly admix all levels thereof and for concurrently drawing the agitated manure through the housing toward said inlet when the device is actuated,
- said housing being retractable from a lowered, loading position to a raised, transport position,
- said tank having an outlet on said one end for unloading stored manure from the tank;
- a conveyor unit within said tank for conveying manure away from said inlet and toward said outlet; and
- spreader mechanism mounted on said one end of the tank exteriorly thereof adjacent said outlet for distributing manure from the tank evenly over a field.
- 2. An implement as claimed in claim 1, wherein said housing is spaced from said one end of the tank and said spreader mechanism is disposed between said one end and said housing.
- 3. An implement as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conveyor unit includes a pair of opposite lead augers rotatably mounted within said tank in spaced parallel relationship overlying said bottom of the tank.
- 4. An implement as claimed in claim 1, wherein said spreader mechanism includes a sump in communication with said outlet, said sump extending below the bottom of said tank for receiving manure from said outlet.
- 5. In a liquid manure handling implement:
- a holding tank having a bottom and a rear end and provided with an inlet and an outlet;
- a spreader mounted on said rear end of said tank exteriorly thereof for distributing manure from said tank evenly across a field;
- a pickup mounted on said rear end and extending rearwardly beyond said spreader, said pickup being adapted for loading manure into said tank through said inlet; and
- a conveyor unit within said tank adjacent said bottom for concurrently drawing manure away from said inlet and moving manure toward said outlet,
- said conveyor unit having means for creating countermoving streams of manure within said tank to thoroughly agitate the manure as the same is conveyed by said unit.
- 6. An implement as claimed in claim 5, wherein said means includes a pair of opposite lead augers rotatably mounted within said tank in spaced, parallel relationship overlying said bottom of the tank, and transmission means interconnecting said augers for simultaneous rotation of the latter.
- 7. An implement as claimed in claim 6, wherein said pickup includes an agitator-loader device rotatably mounted adjacent said inlet, said device being interconnected with one of said augers for simultaneous rotation therewith, said one auger being associated with said inlet.
- 8. An implement as claimed in claim 7, wherein said spreader includes a rotor rigidly adjacent said outlet and connected to the other of said augers for rotation with the latter to distribute manure conveyed through said outlet by said other auger.
CROSS REFERENCES
This is a continuation-in-part of our prior copending application entitled "LIQUID MANURE LOADING APPARATUS", Ser. No. 426,632, filed Dec. 12, 1973 now U.S. Pat. No. 3,899,066.
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